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Eggmen, distrustful elephants and plenty of jambo jumbo feature among the most
confounding lyrics of all time, according to a survey.

The research, which asked 2,000 people to rank the song words they find most
confusing, singles out Lionel Richie, the Beatles, the Killers, Michael
Jackson and Oasis.

A third of respondents said that Brandon Flowers of the Killers had baffled
them with the words to Human, from the 2008 album Day and Age.
In it, the frontman apparently deliberately decides to dispense with proper
grammar in a reference to a quote from Hunter S. Thompson, the late
drugaddled journalist.

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‘Are we human, or are we dancer?’ The Killers, Human
‘I am the eggman, they are the eggmen, I am the walrus, goo goo g’ joob’ The Beatles,
I Am the Walrus
‘What about elephants? Have we lost their trust?’ Michael Jackson, Earth Song
‘Tom bol li de se de moi ya, hey jambo jumbo’ Lionel Richie, All Night Long
‘Before you came into my life, I missed you so bad’ Carly Rae Jepson, Call Me Maybe
‘Beats so big I’m stepping on leprechauns’ Black Eyed Peas, Boom Boom Pow
‘The reflex is an only child, he’s waiting in the park’ Duran Duran, The Reflex
‘Club Tropicana, drinks are free, fun and sunshine, there’s enough for everyone, all that’s missing is the sea’ Wham!, ClubTropicana
‘Cause you were Romeo, I was a scarlet letter, and my daddy said stay away from Juliet’ Taylor Swift, Love Story
‘Slowly walking down the hall, faster than a cannonball’ Oasis, Champagne Supernova